Total number of performances by country, for the 2012/13 season. In brackets, the national populations in millions. As Operabase collected about 24,500 performances in this season, Germany is mounting about 30% of all opera performances globally.
Compared with our previous statistics, we have a lot more data from the east of Europe: Russia moves into third place, and the Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria all appear in the top 20 for the first time.

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Top

1

at

Austurríki

149.8

(1252 /

8.356m)

2

ch

Sviss

102.1

(795 /

7.786m)

3

ee

Eistland

95.5

(128 /

1.340m)

4

de

Þýskaland

88.4

(7230 /

81.758m)

5

cz

Tékkland

80.8

(863 /

10.675m)

6

hu

Ungverjaland

61.2

(608 /

9.942m)

7

lt

Litháen

52.1

(169 /

3.244m)

8

si

Slóvenía

51.2

(105 /

2.049m)

9

sk

Slóvakía

47.1

(256 /

5.430m)

10

se

Svíþjóð

43.3

(405 /

9.354m)

11

lu

Lúxemborg

41.8

(21 /

0.502m)

12

no

Noregur

38.9

(192 /

4.938m)

13

hr

Króatía

37.4

(168 /

4.486m)

14

bg

Búlgaría

34.8

(264 /

7.577m)

15

dk

Danmörk

34.2

(190 /

5.558m)

16

fi

Finnland

30.5

(164 /

5.375m)

17

lv

Lettland

24.3

(54 /

2.218m)

18

be

Belgía

24.0

(260 /

10.828m)

19

fr

Frakkland

19.6

(1288 /

65.822m)

20

it

ítalía

19.2

(1162 /

60.419m)

The number of performances per million citizens. In brackets, the total number of performances and the population in millions.The top five in the table are unchanged, with Austria still dominating the top position.

Borgir

Top

1

at (#1)

Wien

578

(2.00m)

2

de (#1)

Berlin

523

(3.44m)

3

fr (#1)

Paris

437

(10.20m)

4

ru (#1)

Moscow

424

(10.56m)

5

ru (#2)

St Petersburg

377

(4.88m)

6

cz (#1)

Praha

374

(1.25m)

7

uk (#1)

London

344

(8.28m)

8

de (#2)

Hamburg

335

(1.77m)

9

hu (#1)

Budapest

331

(2.52m)

10

us (#1)

New York

299

(18.22m)

11

de (#3)

Dresden

295

(0.78m)

12

de (#4)

München

246

(2.61m)

13

ch (#1)

Zurich

229

(0.37m)

14

se (#1)

Stockholm

214

(1.25m)

15

de (#5)

Frankfurt

184

(2.29m)

16

au (#1)

Sydney

178

(3.64m)

17

es (#1)

Madrid

172

(3.26m)

18

de (#6)

Stuttgart

162

(1.80m)

19

de (#7)

Leipzig

157

(1.00m)

20

pl (#1)

Wroclaw

155

(0.63m)

The number of performances in each city, in the 2012/13 season. The figure given in brackets is the urban population in millions.